I got an itch to move away from Facebook a bit and go back to blogging. It actually came from listening to a Freakonomics interview with Wired Magazine founder Kevin Kelly ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Kelly_%28editor%29 ) It’s a good interview, you should listen. Anyway, I’m going to see what I can do to dust this place off and get back to blogging, even if no one is watching.

Melissa and I have been watching rips I made of an anime series from DVD. I ripped it with english/japanese audio and english subs. We’re watching it with the Japanese audio and the English subs. Also, I find the openers to anime are generally really annoying. They’re just not my thing. So I like to skip them after the first few times. Here’s the command line to play the show without having to manually set it all up every time:

vlc –audio-track=1 –sub-track=1 –start-time=81 DeathNote_ep01.mkv

The audio and subtitle tracks are numbered from zero. On this show, English is zero, Japanese is one for the audio. English translations of signs, labels, etc is subtitle track zero. Full English subs is subtitle track one. Lastly, the show starts and 1m 21s into each file, so I tell vlc to start at 81 seconds in.